Moon Beam

Name: Moon Beam
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Travis Taylor
ISBN: 9781980049005

Author: Travis Taylor, Jody Lynn Nye

Series: Bright Sparks #1

Narrator: Molly Griggs

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/19/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

STAY ALIVE ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON What happens when you get the one thing you wanted most in life? Lonely 16-year-old farm girl Barbara Winton has been following one reality show for years. Then in an instant she goes from fangirl to participant when the call comes from Dr. Keegan Bright: She's been selected out of a horde of applicants to join him on the Moon. She'll be one of his Bright Sparks, six students with expertise in STEM and plenty of their own ingenuity chosen to work with Dr. Bright and given big responsibilities to undertake new projects important to the growth of the colony. Her first task? Build a radar telescope using an entire crater on the far side of the Moon. But Barbara soon learns that life on a burgeoning frontier outpost like the Moon is a far cry from safe, civilized Earth. The loner from farm country must find a way to weld a functional team out of fiercely independent thinkers. Not only are they a bit trickier to work with than farm robots, not only is the working environment incredibly dangerous-she also has to perform this miracle in front of millions of fans. . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on July 16, 2017

I fell like this novelization for some '70's or '80's sci-fi disaster movie. Only done right with smarter more interesting characters. The younger characters feel like real people. While I never doubted at the very least the main character would survive I did at least feel that the rest of the team......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on October 06, 2017

Six young people, the protégées of scientist turned reality broadcast star Dr. Keegan Bright, are the Bright Sparks. Can they set up a massive crater-built radio telescope on the far side of the moon? Will they survive a massive, deadly solar flare? What can the younger kids in the group do when a s......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on May 31, 2024

Suitable for even younger teens. The teens are the heroes in this book. They are smart enough and have enough control over their emotions to save the day and their own lives.......more

Goodreads review by Jared on July 20, 2020

This was exciting and pretty fun...but, I guess for the sake of making it more exciting, the author made the Sparks team ("team" including Dr. Bright) too self-sufficient and cut off from other resources. Vague spoilers ahead...It doesn't matter how busy the rest of the station is with their own eme......more

Goodreads review by Leigh on July 26, 2020

I grew up on YA sf of the 1950's, full of stories of young people on the Moon and Mars: Richard Elam's Young Visitor on Mars, Robert Silverberg's Lost Race of Mars, the various Heinlein juveniles, etc. Back in the 1970's, they portrayed a future that seemed just barely within reach, because the Apol......more